Celsys has launched Clip Studio Paint 2.0, the primary main replace for its widespread digital illustration app that introduces new 3D referencing instruments, brush results, and extra language help.
A number of the most notable additions for the replace construct on the app’s current help for 3D fashions, which could be imported into the app and used as drawing references. Model 2.0 of Clip Studio Paint introduces a customizable head model throughout the 3D part of the Materials palette that may be freely positioned to search out the specified angle. There are 9 preset faces to select from that cowl realism, anime, ultra-masculine superhero, and extra. Head measurement, form, lighting, and facial options are all adjustable.
Clip Studio Paint 2.0 is obtainable now throughout all supported platforms (Home windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, and Chromebook), with a value beginning at $0.99 a month in the event you’re utilizing it on a single cell machine. Selecting methods to purchase the software program is now simpler mentioned than executed, although, as pricing has change into complicated and quite convoluted following the corporate’s resolution to drop its beloved one-time purchase model.
Celsys gives two tiers for Clip Studio Paint 2.0 — Professional for on a regular basis illustrators (ranging from $4.99 a month for one pill or pc) and EX for animators and comedian artists who want extra export choices and multipage help (equally ranging from $8.99 a month).
Every tier is obtainable as both a month-to-month or annual subscription or a one-time buy, which then requires an annual Replace Move subscription to obtain future updates. Celsys additionally provides upgrades for customers who had already bought a one-time license for Clip Studio Paint 1.0. You’ll be able to learn the full breakdown for each pricing model and membership tier on the Clip Studio Paint web site.
Gripes with V2’s pricing apart — for these of us that detest drawing arms (responsible), a Hand Scanner instrument has been added. It makes use of your machine’s digicam to scan and monitor your personal hand, mirroring its actions on a 3D mannequin in actual time. Different useful instruments new to Clip Studio Paint 2.0 embody an adjustable fisheye perspective ruler, which distorts a picture as if being seen via a fisheye lens, and Align/Distribute layers to evenly line up or organize objects and drawings.
For illustration-based updates, a brand new Perceptual Mixing mode for brush instruments that gives extra reasonable shade mixing has been added to the Ink part of the Sub instrument element palette. Perceptual Mixing mode contains 5 brightness correction ranges that can be utilized to regulate how colours mix throughout each brush sort. Clip Studio Paint 2.0 additionally introduces a brand new Shading Assistant that routinely provides shadows to your work utilizing a draggable “gentle” supply. Two shading types can be found — Easy Shading for a blended look and Cel Shading for strong, comic-style contrasts.
Lastly, the app is now additionally accessible in 4 further languages: Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, and Simplified Chinese language (although the latter isn’t accessible for Home windows or macOS). There are different small however nonetheless helpful options included in Clip Studio Paint 2.0 that we’re not going to listing right here, however you could find the total breakdown of what’s new within the release notes.